§ SIR WILLIAM CODDINGTON (Blackburn)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, whether the Government purpose taking steps to protect financially the higher grade and other elementary schools whose income may be diminished by the limitation of the block grant as proposed in the new Code of regulations for day schools.
§ SIR J. GORSTThe reduction of the income of the higher grade schools under the Code will not be considerable, and no school can have its income diminished by reason of the new Code till the year 1891–2. In the meanwhile expedients will without doubt be devised by which the efficiency of these schools will be protected.